Good. Let me appreciate this action by the State Department to address a corrupt voting process and pull back from previous language that skipped over what seems to be the reality of what happened. Here is the statement. It would…

Foreign Policy has published a piece reporting significant internal dissent from the reversal of the U.S. position from significantly negative to largely positive on the recent DRC election: . . . . In a series of preliminary statements crafted by…

Ahead of the long-overdue elections scheduled for next month in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the State Department announced the nomination of Dr. Peter Pham, Africa Director at the Atlantic Council, to be Trump's special envoy to the African…

[Updated Aug 9] The Democratic Republic of Congo stands out as a wealthy country with mostly very poor voters, a fairly poor government, extremely poor governance, high corruption, pervasive political violence, a current humanitarian crisis on a Yemani scale and…

The State Department issued a Valentines evening statement on the "ongoing" electoral "process" in the DRC. Hard to know what the point of this is. Perhaps it is simply an example of the maxim "if you don't have anything nice…

Release from Carter Center: DRC Presidential Election Results Lack Credibility The Carter Center finds the provisional presidential election results announced by the Independent National Election Commission (CENI) on Dec. 9 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to lack credibility.…